The difference is that those customers paid for their older products.
You don't see an uproar over a lack of support for MSIE 4.0 do you? The upgrade is free and available to all, just like CifsFS is on Linux systems. If someone chooses to not keep their system up to date they are on their own.
But, if you think otherwise, then maybe I should ask for support for my 486 that has a 2.0.something kernel that hasn't been turned on in years.
So you're trying to tell me that you will be making a map for a game which you do not posess?
How will you debug and test the map? Obviously you would need to go to your friend's computer, at which point you're almost better off just developing it straight on their rig.
"You need to have pre-order HL 2 on Steam to have access to the SDK, right now.
Well that makes sense, because it's kinda hard to test your levels without having the game. Those who preordered have CS:S to test with. Those who haven't preordered either don't have the game, and thus have no reason to make a map for it, or they have a pirated copy of CS:S and Valve shouldn't give a shit about them anyways.
Try different drivers. I use the Omega drivers rather than Catalysts on my Radeon 9600, mainly because the Catalysts don't officially work on mobile platforms and HP/Compaq is slow at updating their versions.
There are Omega versions of both Catalyst and Detonator/Forceware
Also, try different DVD player software. All of the major players have demo versions, which have full functionality for 10 days or something. Hopefully at least nVdvd (nVidia's DVD player) would work.
I guess VLC is fine too. Gotta love open source software developed overseas where DMCA doesn't apply.
Here's something that has baffled me about this entire chain of events.
Why the hell would anyone want to pay for a BSD-licensed version of Linux? Linux is a UNIX-like OS, maintained by hobbyists, and released for free on the Internet.
There is already an OS that meets those same three qualifications, but is BSD licensed. It's called (drumroll, please) BSD!
Now I've only toyed with BSD on a few occasions, but it's my understanding that there are systems in place that allow binary compatibility with Linux. It also should be nearly 100% source-compatible. If a feature is implemented in one that turns out to be useful, it will soon be available in the other.
From the perspective of a desktop user, once set up the two are identical. To a power user or admin, there are noticable differences, but not enough to make someone uncomfortable.
The question remains: why bother with getting Linux BSD licensed when BSD is right there?
We all know MS has used BSD code in the past, and I'd wager that most other OSes contain something that was acquired (perfectly legally I should add) from BSD.
"You couldn't play DVDs because the card has TV-Out... why's that? (seriously)"
Because the ability to play on a TV screen is limited to the more expensive versions of some DVD software, or maybe the video card's TV out somehow stripped the Macrovision protection from the signal, creating an "analog hole".
Just a guess though, since my AiW 128 and Radeon 9600 Pro both play DVDs on the TV out just fine.
" Any attempt to neutralize a societal disadvantage through charity will only entrench it further, for two reasons:
1. The more disadvantaged will no longer have any incentive to overcome their deficiency.
2. The less disadvantaged will try to enhance their disability in order to qualify for aid.
Cynical? Yes. That's reality. You don't have to like it or agree with it; you just have to live with it."
Quoted for freakin' Truth!
you sir, have made my friends list.
#2 is extremely common in my area. Poor families just keep pumping out the kids to qualify for assistance.
I have no problem with charity, and I occasionally give to known organizations like the Red Cross, but the forced charity (read: COMMUNISM) of the liberals has to stop.
If people want to give their money to support "disadvantaged" people, let them do it with their own free will. If it turns out that they don't want to, well then I guess the "disadvantaged" will either have to figure out how to become productive members of society, or they can just die. Either way, there's less leechers living off a share of my money.
Of course you could always have something along the lines of a jog dial or mouse wheel, where the interface is rotary, but not arbitrarily limited in range.
Ford uses these for volume controls on their radios, and it's the same technology that is used for the scroll wheel and ball rollers in mice.
You could even have an exponential acceleration, so a slight twist would change by one channel, but a fast twist would change by 50 or something like that...
Ordered it along with my notebook. Perfectly sized for my 15.4" widescreen model, cell phone pouch, mp3 player pouch with headphone passthru, plenty of room.
I use mine to carry the notebook, power adapter, mouse, headphones, game controller, power strip, LAN cables (never know when an impromptu LAN party may spring up when you hang out with geeks), as well as all my books for college.
the bag has gone flying off a bus seat more than once, computer took no damage. same with light rain.
The compartments have no ventilation, so leaving the machine running even for a quick walk from one building to another results in a sweating back.
Also, aside from the small HP logo on the back, it has no sign that it may hold a computer.
Well it is their right in the capitalist system. If the people will pay, they can do what they want.
There is no problem with the music industry charging $20 for their CDs if the people will pay it. It's their choice. I could charge $2000 for my software if I wanted to (I don't however, preferring to GPL or BSD it).
So far the only thing the **AA has done wrong is blaming falling sales entirely on P2P, rather than admitting that it is also related to the high cost and low quality of most of their offerings.
Obviously P2P is a cause, as most who download will not buy (yes a few do, but most don't), but it's not the only cause.
And for the record, I do support suing filesharers, because regardless of if the music industry isn't offering a decent online distribution method, copyright infringement is still wrong, and should be punished.
"there are NO machines that Apple ships without external video."
Not anymore, but my first generation (233/B) iMac does not have any external video. I know Apple added a VGA port eventually, but the first generation does not have one.
Yes, you can crack WEP easily, if the AP or card is using an old firmware version. Most if not all modern Wifi devices are nearly immune to WEP cracking attempts.
Not to mention that no wardriver will bother with cracking the WEP, as has been mentioned many times already.
The only reason anyone would try to crack WEP would be if they are specifically targeting your AP. Businesses shouls consider alternate means of security, home users really shouldn't bother unless they have a skript kiddie living within a short distance.
WinXP Pro: AVG Free set to autoupdate and scan, Spybot S&D, also autoupdating and scanning, Windows Update set to auto download, but ask to install. SP2 Firewall turned on (I tested it and found it to be good enough that I stopped using ZoneAlarm)
FC2: Update regularly, no services available outside of LAN except testing webserver that is on port 8000 to bypass school's incoming traffic filter, test server only known fo a select few.
"Of course they will be less expensive for the same reasons Winmodem are less expensive than hardware modem"
Um...by that logic the non-trusted hardware would be cheaper because it has less parts.
Winmodems aren't cheaper because of any tethering to Windows (in fact they aren't even tethered to Windows), they're cheaper because they're simpler, and use software to perform many of the functions that a standard modem performs in hardware.
Charging more for the board without the "trust chip" is plainly stupid.
"That's right. And of course, we all saw every web page that went up back then as soon as it appeared. It was easier way back then when the net was smaller, there were fewer pages and we didn't have so many people complaining that they've seen things before."
I know this page has been linked from here before...i saw it like a year and a half ago....but i'm too drunk right now to find it....
Just had to point out that the Explorer is not at fault. The drivers reacted improperly to the tire delaminating by making a quick maneuver, thus causing them to lose control. No different from if it was in any other SUV.
The tires did have a problem, but the Car and Driver test proved the Explorer was still very controllable in the event of a tire blowing. The driver even took his hands off the wheel and the truck tracked straight.
Don't blame the Explorer when the problem was that the drivers did not know how to handle their vehicle's higher center of gravity. It's not a sports car. To be usable off road, it has to be taller, meaning less stable.
"but if you've ever tried encoding in MPEG 1 or 2, you're doing much better than me if you can do it in real time (MPEG 4 I can do in real time)"
heh...that's the exact opposite of my experience. With my old 350MHz P-II and AiW128 I could encode MPEG 1 or 2 realtime without much trouble (MPEG2 dropped frames at higher resolutions), but MPEG4 maxed around 4FPS when I was doing DVD rips. I never tried to do it realtime.
about your other comment, I would assume that it is easier on the system to just pull in the 30MB/sec from the USB2 port and shoot it straight to the video card with something like DirectX Video Acceleration or similar, rather than taking in a compressed stream and decoding it.
They mean uncompressed over the USB2 wire. Once it reaches the computer you can choose a format to encode to if you want to record it.
Older USB1 tuners would compress the stream to make it fit in to USB1's bandwidth (or lack thereof), usually with a low quality MPEG1. If you wanted it in a different format, you then had to transcode, making the quality even worse.
The USB2 tuners deliver the raw signal from the ADCs to the PC tuner software. What is done with it from there is the user's choice. You can record the stream uncompressed (at least in the last version of ATIs tuner software I used.)
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I tried that with my Tablet PC. Doesn't work.
The difference is that those customers paid for their older products.
You don't see an uproar over a lack of support for MSIE 4.0 do you? The upgrade is free and available to all, just like CifsFS is on Linux systems. If someone chooses to not keep their system up to date they are on their own.
But, if you think otherwise, then maybe I should ask for support for my 486 that has a 2.0.something kernel that hasn't been turned on in years.
So you're trying to tell me that you will be making a map for a game which you do not posess?
How will you debug and test the map? Obviously you would need to go to your friend's computer, at which point you're almost better off just developing it straight on their rig.
"You need to have pre-order HL 2 on Steam to have access to the SDK, right now.
Well that makes sense, because it's kinda hard to test your levels without having the game. Those who preordered have CS:S to test with. Those who haven't preordered either don't have the game, and thus have no reason to make a map for it, or they have a pirated copy of CS:S and Valve shouldn't give a shit about them anyways.
Try different drivers. I use the Omega drivers rather than Catalysts on my Radeon 9600, mainly because the Catalysts don't officially work on mobile platforms and HP/Compaq is slow at updating their versions.
There are Omega versions of both Catalyst and Detonator/Forceware
Also, try different DVD player software. All of the major players have demo versions, which have full functionality for 10 days or something. Hopefully at least nVdvd (nVidia's DVD player) would work.
I guess VLC is fine too. Gotta love open source software developed overseas where DMCA doesn't apply.
Here's something that has baffled me about this entire chain of events.
Why the hell would anyone want to pay for a BSD-licensed version of Linux? Linux is a UNIX-like OS, maintained by hobbyists, and released for free on the Internet.
There is already an OS that meets those same three qualifications, but is BSD licensed. It's called (drumroll, please) BSD!
Now I've only toyed with BSD on a few occasions, but it's my understanding that there are systems in place that allow binary compatibility with Linux. It also should be nearly 100% source-compatible. If a feature is implemented in one that turns out to be useful, it will soon be available in the other.
From the perspective of a desktop user, once set up the two are identical. To a power user or admin, there are noticable differences, but not enough to make someone uncomfortable.
The question remains: why bother with getting Linux BSD licensed when BSD is right there?
We all know MS has used BSD code in the past, and I'd wager that most other OSes contain something that was acquired (perfectly legally I should add) from BSD.
"You couldn't play DVDs because the card has TV-Out... why's that? (seriously)"
Because the ability to play on a TV screen is limited to the more expensive versions of some DVD software, or maybe the video card's TV out somehow stripped the Macrovision protection from the signal, creating an "analog hole".
Just a guess though, since my AiW 128 and Radeon 9600 Pro both play DVDs on the TV out just fine.
Who read that as "Big Arctic Pen1s"....
I've been reading too many spam mails...
" Any attempt to neutralize a societal disadvantage through charity will only entrench it further, for two reasons:
1. The more disadvantaged will no longer have any incentive to overcome their deficiency.
2. The less disadvantaged will try to enhance their disability in order to qualify for aid.
Cynical? Yes. That's reality. You don't have to like it or agree with it; you just have to live with it."
Quoted for freakin' Truth!
you sir, have made my friends list.
#2 is extremely common in my area. Poor families just keep pumping out the kids to qualify for assistance.
I have no problem with charity, and I occasionally give to known organizations like the Red Cross, but the forced charity (read: COMMUNISM) of the liberals has to stop.
If people want to give their money to support "disadvantaged" people, let them do it with their own free will. If it turns out that they don't want to, well then I guess the "disadvantaged" will either have to figure out how to become productive members of society, or they can just die. Either way, there's less leechers living off a share of my money.
I bet this thing doesn't even have a graphic card.
Oh, well that's fine...I'll just devote a few hundred processors to software rendering.
Something tells me that 256 Opterons working together could smoke a GF6800Ultra
Of course you could always have something along the lines of a jog dial or mouse wheel, where the interface is rotary, but not arbitrarily limited in range.
Ford uses these for volume controls on their radios, and it's the same technology that is used for the scroll wheel and ball rollers in mice.
You could even have an exponential acceleration, so a slight twist would change by one channel, but a fast twist would change by 50 or something like that...
" I'm too fat to wear a bikini, you insensitive cload?"
That doesn't stop a lot of fat people.
Ordered it along with my notebook. Perfectly sized for my 15.4" widescreen model, cell phone pouch, mp3 player pouch with headphone passthru, plenty of room.
I use mine to carry the notebook, power adapter, mouse, headphones, game controller, power strip, LAN cables (never know when an impromptu LAN party may spring up when you hang out with geeks), as well as all my books for college.
the bag has gone flying off a bus seat more than once, computer took no damage. same with light rain.
The compartments have no ventilation, so leaving the machine running even for a quick walk from one building to another results in a sweating back.
Also, aside from the small HP logo on the back, it has no sign that it may hold a computer.
Well it is their right in the capitalist system. If the people will pay, they can do what they want.
There is no problem with the music industry charging $20 for their CDs if the people will pay it. It's their choice. I could charge $2000 for my software if I wanted to (I don't however, preferring to GPL or BSD it).
So far the only thing the **AA has done wrong is blaming falling sales entirely on P2P, rather than admitting that it is also related to the high cost and low quality of most of their offerings.
Obviously P2P is a cause, as most who download will not buy (yes a few do, but most don't), but it's not the only cause.
And for the record, I do support suing filesharers, because regardless of if the music industry isn't offering a decent online distribution method, copyright infringement is still wrong, and should be punished.
"there are NO machines that Apple ships without external video."
Not anymore, but my first generation (233/B) iMac does not have any external video. I know Apple added a VGA port eventually, but the first generation does not have one.
Yes, you can crack WEP easily, if the AP or card is using an old firmware version. Most if not all modern Wifi devices are nearly immune to WEP cracking attempts.
Not to mention that no wardriver will bother with cracking the WEP, as has been mentioned many times already.
The only reason anyone would try to crack WEP would be if they are specifically targeting your AP. Businesses shouls consider alternate means of security, home users really shouldn't bother unless they have a skript kiddie living within a short distance.
WinXP Pro: AVG Free set to autoupdate and scan, Spybot S&D, also autoupdating and scanning, Windows Update set to auto download, but ask to install. SP2 Firewall turned on (I tested it and found it to be good enough that I stopped using ZoneAlarm)
FC2: Update regularly, no services available outside of LAN except testing webserver that is on port 8000 to bypass school's incoming traffic filter, test server only known fo a select few.
"Of course they will be less expensive for the same reasons Winmodem are less expensive than hardware modem"
Um...by that logic the non-trusted hardware would be cheaper because it has less parts.
Winmodems aren't cheaper because of any tethering to Windows (in fact they aren't even tethered to Windows), they're cheaper because they're simpler, and use software to perform many of the functions that a standard modem performs in hardware.
Charging more for the board without the "trust chip" is plainly stupid.
"That's right. And of course, we all saw every web page that went up back then as soon as it appeared. It was easier way back then when the net was smaller, there were fewer pages and we didn't have so many people complaining that they've seen things before."
I know this page has been linked from here before...i saw it like a year and a half ago....but i'm too drunk right now to find it....
maybe it was on the [H].....
Yea, what ads?
"Put life on mars."
But we've all* seen what that will lead to, thanks to DooM ]|[
*all of us with recent video hardware, that is...
I haven't seen that message since the first few days after the last redesign of Hotmail.
Over time, they've fixed every browser incompatibility I ever saw. (Not sure who fixed it, but someone did)
Are you sure you're not user-agent spoofing something old when you get that message?
Just had to point out that the Explorer is not at fault. The drivers reacted improperly to the tire delaminating by making a quick maneuver, thus causing them to lose control. No different from if it was in any other SUV.
The tires did have a problem, but the Car and Driver test proved the Explorer was still very controllable in the event of a tire blowing. The driver even took his hands off the wheel and the truck tracked straight.
Don't blame the Explorer when the problem was that the drivers did not know how to handle their vehicle's higher center of gravity. It's not a sports car. To be usable off road, it has to be taller, meaning less stable.
"but if you've ever tried encoding in MPEG 1 or 2, you're doing much better than me if you can do it in real time (MPEG 4 I can do in real time)"
heh...that's the exact opposite of my experience. With my old 350MHz P-II and AiW128 I could encode MPEG 1 or 2 realtime without much trouble (MPEG2 dropped frames at higher resolutions), but MPEG4 maxed around 4FPS when I was doing DVD rips. I never tried to do it realtime.
about your other comment, I would assume that it is easier on the system to just pull in the 30MB/sec from the USB2 port and shoot it straight to the video card with something like DirectX Video Acceleration or similar, rather than taking in a compressed stream and decoding it.
They mean uncompressed over the USB2 wire. Once it reaches the computer you can choose a format to encode to if you want to record it.
Older USB1 tuners would compress the stream to make it fit in to USB1's bandwidth (or lack thereof), usually with a low quality MPEG1. If you wanted it in a different format, you then had to transcode, making the quality even worse.
The USB2 tuners deliver the raw signal from the ADCs to the PC tuner software. What is done with it from there is the user's choice. You can record the stream uncompressed (at least in the last version of ATIs tuner software I used.)